Gigapan Comments
(2)

1) synorogenic = during a mountain building event;
2) conglomerates = sedimentary rocks made of
rounded, pebble to boulder sized fragmentary
material; 3) Late Cretaceous = toward the end of
the era of the dinosaurs; 4) Sevier Orogeny = one
of several mountain building events that thrust up
today's Rocky Mountains; 5) thrusting = a type
of faulting wherein the crust is thickened by low
angle reverse faults that result from
compressional stresses; 6) Utah-Wyoming Thrust
Belt = a geologic province along the Utah-Wyoming
border region that is characterized by thrust
tectonics and has been the focus of some recent
oil exploration